Day VIII: Wednesday, October - Cleveland, OH

Well, folks, it was day eight and we were safely ensconced in Ohio once again, which was fine with us. I mean, to paraphrase Mike Doughty, aren’t we all, in our own way, going to Ohio?

Anywho, Cleveland is always good to us and we try to be good right back. We started our night off at the Wilco show at the Agora Theater. We figured it would be a good idea to go there first and give out stickers and flyers for our show, thus attracting thousands of folks over to our post-Wilco shenanigans. This type of promotion usually makes me a little uncomfortable, but it was much easier in Ohio than in Boston or New York. In Ohio when someone doesn’t want something, they say “no thanks,” or “sorry.” In Boston, on the other hand, people who really don’t want a handout offer to put it deep in very uncomfortable parts of your body for you. I choo-choo-choose Ohio.

So after the handout session, we roll up to the Beachland Ballroom, which is undoubtedly one of our favorite clubs. There are friendly people, cheap beer and you never know who you’ll run into. On this night, we were playing after folk singer John Wesley Harding, who I actually used to be really into in high school. Unfortunately, high school was a long time ago. Oh well. It was still a fun little show complete with lyrics like “Goth girl, what are you wearing today? Oh, black again….” That’s a good one Johnny, that’s a good one.

As for the Fooled By April rock kids, we took the rock, mixed it with some roll and brought the house down. There’s just something in the water in Cleveland I guess, because things always go well for us there. Not as well as for Dakota Floyd, but we’re just humans people. Rock.

After the show it was off to the lakehouse for us, where we got some well deserved rest and some much needed cuddling (Pete and Jordan again!).

Tomorrow - Akron, OH